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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Gentle Art of Tossing
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'Ches Fanning is a downsized sports broadcaster reduced to calling sheep dog trials in rural Gippsland. He stops for counter tea at the rundown Fish Creek pub. It is the night of the local darts finals. There he spots in languid action the willowy Sam Alley, a twenty-year-old girl. Despite her parents' reservations, he takes her under his wing. He becomes her player manager and promoter but her Australian run is derailed by power brokers.

'Ches decides to take Sam to England. She competes against Britain's finest in the Pay-TV series Double Tops. He and Sam must contend with his ex and would-be wives, Helen and Hollie, the fierce local champ Tiger Magee and a hostile dartocracy. As Ches says, "People are going to lap up the story of the small town country girl who went to the Old Dart and whipped them on their own patch of lager-sodden axminster."

'Whether you're a sports tragic or not, Alan Cornell's The Gentle Art of Tossing aims straight for your funny bone and hits the target.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Pepper , 2011 .
      image of person or book cover 3079027839510627442.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: vi, 202p.p.
      ISBN: 9781876044688 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Untitled Susan Errington , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 25 2011; (p. 62-63)

— Review of The Gentle Art of Tossing Alan Cornell , 2011 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30 July 2011; (p. 30)

— Review of The Gentle Art of Tossing Alan Cornell , 2011 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30 July 2011; (p. 30)

— Review of The Gentle Art of Tossing Alan Cornell , 2011 single work novel
Untitled Susan Errington , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 25 2011; (p. 62-63)

— Review of The Gentle Art of Tossing Alan Cornell , 2011 single work novel
Last amended 6 May 2021 15:38:44
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